Stupor in Ecuador and the United States for the case of the two girls thrown from the border wall with Mexico

In the pictures you can see how a person is throwing the two girls along the wall, more than 4 meters high. You can tell they are small. One falls and hits the ground. He remains motionless. But after a while he gets up. The other falls immediately. And an adult from the top of the wall escapes on the other side. Both are abandoned alone in the desert, on North American soil, far from their home in Ecuador. A camera captured the scene, causing waves of condemnation and rejection at the White House and in Quito

Joe Biden’s management has been “alarmed” by this affair and demanded that undocumented immigrants avoid putting themselves in the hands of those who “mistreat” them.

During her daily press conference, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki referred to the video released on Wednesday by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in which a man drops two girls of Ecuadorian descent , aged 3 and 5, from the top of the border wall. at 4.2 meters high.

“All of us who have seen the video will be extremely alarmed by these things that human traffickers are doing,” Psaki said.

The girls are fine

Migrant girls have already been dump at the hospital and are now in the custody of the Border Patrol awaiting surrender to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), who will attempt to deliver them to potential relatives in the United States and process the requests asylum.

“To the attention of execrable abandonment of two Ecuadorian girls, dropped by human traffickers from the wall, on the border between the United States and Mexico, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that, through the Ecuadorian consulate in Houston, it lends its entire contingent to protect the well-being of minors, ”the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility “condemn and reject this inhuman and irrational “proceeds from those who commit crimes” by illegally trafficking with migrants “, reads the official note.

Ecuador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also urges families and relatives to avoid exposure or expose their children to the dangers of irregular migration.

The White House spokeswoman thanked border officials who they “saved” the two girls and said: “We want to send a clear message to the region (for Latin America) now is not the time to come; they must not send their children on this treacherous journey, with traffickers who abuse the weaknesses of these communities. “

US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also regretted Wednesday “the path inhuman in which the traffickers they abuse children while taking advantage of their parents’ desperation ”, and described it as“ criminally and morally wrong ”.

“Just this month a little girl drowned death, a six-month-old baby was thrown into the river and two little girls were thrown from a wall and left alone in the desert, ”Mayorkas said in a statement.

In recent weeks, the passage of unaccompanied minors across the US-Mexico border has increased dramatically, saturating border patrol centers and sparking criticism of the Biden administration. There are currently about 18,000 miners unaccompanied who are in the custody of the customs office.

Joffrey Pinzón, president of the Mouvement Familles et Migrants (MFAM) association, confirmed the increase in the illegal migration of minors to the United States. “Unfortunately, Ecuador is currently in the crosshairs of crime and drug dealers. School failure is growing and young people have no future, ”he said.

“If I am a migrant to the United States, even without papers, if I make a good living, I will eventually decide to bring them in and contact the coyotes, the human traffickers and then I will play the lottery a bit. with the lives of my children, ”added.

Drafting of Clarín with information from agencies and RFI

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